Word: photostatic
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...that it was really Al Gore's election to lose. And at last, as memorably offered by the punchy Mr. Rather: "a big tip an a hip-hip-hooray and a great big Texas howdy to the next president of the United States. Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on a wall...
...neat stunt--one of the scenes that make Eraser, like The Rock, a medium-high entry in the action genre. Briskly directed by Charles Russell, Eraser seems a near-photostat of Mission Impossible (the break-in of a secretive Washington-area facility to use a computer, the duplicitous father figure who must be killed) but with more brio. It also boasts some of the genre's standard idiocies. The script, by Tony Puryear, Walon Green and Michael S. Chernuchin, dreams up a new era of hand-held weaponry: a heat-seeking assault rifle. But the bad guys can't shoot...
...Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when he was 15 and, for 50 cents, a photostat of the King's death certificate...
...Daily Mail's evidence seemed highly questionable. One item was a photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included...
...admiration of Nixon and partly due to a preference for [then] Congressman Nixon over Congresswoman Douglas ..." Arnold says that he accepted the gift, but came to have some regrets a decade later "When Nixon and Kennedy were the opposing candidates for President," he reflects, "we could have used a photostat of that check to good advantage...